Conservation of Momentum of a box of mass

[blue_lilly]

Homework Statement

Box A of mass 1.20 kg is sliding to the right across a frictionless table at a speed of 2.52 m/s. Box A collides with Box B which has a mass of 2.56 kg, and Box A bounces straight back to the left with a speed of 0.665 m/s.
A) What is the momentum of Box A before the collision?

3.02 kg*m/s To the Right Correct Answer​

B) What is the momentum of Box A after the collision?

0.798 kg*m/s Correct: To the Left Correct Answer​

C) What is the momentum of Box B after the collision? This is the one I need help with!

Homework Equations

Momentum(P)=mass(kg)*Velocity(kg*m/s)
Momentum(P-before)=Momentum(P-after)

The Attempt at a Solution

A) P=m*V=(1.20 kg)(2.52 m/s)=3.02 kg*m/s To the right CORRECT
B) P=m*V=(1.20 kg)(.665 m/s)=.798 kg*m/s To the Left CORRECT
This is the part I am having trouble with
C) Momentum(before)=Momentum(after); P=m*V
P_BeforeA+P_BeforeB=P_AfterA+P_AfterB
[(1.20 kg)(2.52 m/s)]+[(2.56 kg)(0 m/s)] = [(1.20 kg)(.665 m/s)]+[]
[3.02 kg*m/s]+[0 kg*m/s] = [.798 kg*m/s]+[P_AfterB]
[(3.02 kg*m/s)/(.798 kg*m/s)] = P_AfterB
P_AfterB = [(3.02 kg*m/s)/(.798 kg*m/s)]
P_AfterB = 3.78 kg*m/s : To the Right

The answer is incorrect. I am assuming the [To the right] portion is correct because BoxA and BoxB collided; this means that they are asserting equal and opposite force on each other and because BoxA went to the Left, BoxB must go to the Right.

This leaves the incorrect portion to be the Momentum of BoxB after the collision. I double checked my math, a numerous amount of time, so I don't know where I am going wrong.

Help is appreciated!

 

[haruspex]

[(1.20 kg)(2.52 m/s)]+[(2.56 kg)(0 m/s)] = [(1.20 kg)(.665 m/s)]+[]

Decide which direction, left or right, is positive. Say it's right. If I tell you box A has momentum +0.8kgm/s at some point, which way is it moving?

 

[blue_lilly]

Decide which direction, left or right, is positive. Say it's right. If I tell you box A has momentum +0.8kgm/s at some point, which way is it moving?

So if I say the right is positive, then anytime a box is moving to the right-there would be a + sign and if it was moving to the left, a -sign.

[+3.02 kg*m/s]+[0 kg*m/s] = [-.798 kg*m/s]+[+P_AfterB]
[(+3.02 kg*m/s)-(-.798 kg*m/s)] = +P_AfterB
+P_AfterB = [(+3.02 kg*m/s)-(-.798 kg*m/s)]
P_AfterB = 3.818 kg*m/s To The Right

Is this correct?

 

[haruspex]

P_AfterB = 3.818 kg*m/s To The Right

Looks right.
(You also did some very strange things later on in the OP, like dividing instead of subtracting. But you got it right this time.)

 

[blue_lilly]

Looks right.
(You also did some very strange things later on in the OP, like dividing instead of subtracting. But you got it right this time.)

Thank you so much, that makes more sense!

I caught the dividing error after I posted the question to the forum! C: